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From: petecasso@aol.com (PeteCasso)
Subject: Re: Text Art Plus
Date: 1997/08/21
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Text Art Plus goes far beyond RTF and html in terms of manipulating text
for achieving visual effects. Coloring and blinking text in html, things
that other ascii web pages make use of, are already extentions to pure
ascii, BTW.

Text Art Plus takes text manipulation to the extreme, to the limits of
state-of-the-art technology. But even so, I am aiming at extreme
simplicity (just like in my pure ascii drawings), doing only what can be
done rather easily with the most sophisticated tools. 

Here is an old cartoon of mine, expressing a position statement rather
than wanting to entertain.

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02                                                                02
03  Frogstein and Birdstein, Advanced Technology                  03
04  by Pete Casso  Revision 970503                                04
05                                                                05
06                   Guru Devilstein, what is ascii art?          06
07                  /                                             07
08     ,,         _==_                                            08
09    ( "> W      <" )                                            09
10   ,(> )>|      <( <)                                           10
11  (  ^^           ^^                                            11
12   ascii art is about achieving visual effects ...              12
13    using keyboard characters is the only valid condition ...   13
14                                                                14
15                                                                15
16                you are free to use advanced technologies ...   16
17               I use the most advanced technologies ...         17
18              /                                                 18
19             /            Yaay! Guru Devilstein has spoken!     19
20            /            /                                      20
21           /           _==_                                     21
22          /            <" )                                     22
23         /             <( <)                                    23
24     ,,                  ^^                                     24
25    ( "> W                                                      25
26   ,(> )>|  http://members.aol.com/petecasso  <- .              26
27  (  ^^        all original ascii art gallery      `            27
28    `  .                 original comic strips       `          28
29           `   .              animated cartoons       '         29
30                   `   .              multimedia      ;         30
31                           `   .                   ,            31
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